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> [1] at least it's free to the poster....not to the networks that keep > having to build ridiculously larger news servers. The first news server I > ran for an ISP had 4GB...and that was for the OS and articles. The most > recent has 18GB for OS, 288GB for articles...and it's obviously obsolete > if others are accepting 300GB/day. When are the operators going to draw > the line and say "no more" to binaries? Perhaps the same time the end-users (whose fees go towards paying for the hardware, presumably) say "we don't want binaries anymore." -- Alex Rubenstein, AR97, K2AHR, [email protected], latency, Al Reuben -- -- Net Access Corporation, 800-NET-ME-36, http://www.nac.net --
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